Nyko has come up with a pretty nice solution for PlayStation 4 owners who need to upgrade their internal hard drive.

The Databank is an external 3.5" hard drive bay that is designed to plug into the PlayStation 4 and sit on top of the unit and it is designed to look like the PlayStation 4, so it does not look out of place.

The best part of it however is that it is able to let PlayStation 4 owners replace the internal 2.5" hard drive with a 3.5" hard drive. As we know the 3.5" drives are cheaper and able to be purchased in much higher capacities. Of course this also opens the world to performance 3.5" hard drives that could not otherwise be used as the console's primary hard drive.

Like the Xbox One the PlayStation 4 does support the connection of USB 3 hard drives, but you can only currently install games on the internal drive. While replacing the 2.5" hard drive with a larger once isn't a cheap solution as these drives are expensive.

While the solution is obviously not officially supported or endorsed by Sony, it seems to us be quite a good solution. Nyko says that they expect the Databank to retail for between $30 and $40 when it is released.

Well known peripheral developer Nyko has seemed to address one of the major issues with the PlayStation Vita which is the battery concern. While Sony rates the battery life of the Vita at between 3 to 5 hours, Nyko has come up with a way to get almost triple that.

While the solution isn’t pretty, the company has come up with the Power Grip, which is a docking station-like device with two controller style grips that contain a battery that will triple your Vita batter life to an estimated 9 to 15 hours.

While it isn’t perhaps as pretty as you would like, at $24.99 it could be a better long-term investment than buying more battery packs over and over again. If you don’t have access to a power sources and you can’t recharge, this could be just the ticket. It is certainly one option that is worth looking at if you need to use the Vita on battery power for longer periods of time.